Privacy Policy

Our website address is: www.worldforestry.org.

We Value Your Privacy

The World Forestry Center has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: www.worldforestry.org.

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you.

This site contains links to other sites. www.worldforestry.org is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

Our site uses an order form for customers to request education programs and memberships. We collect visitor’s contact information (like their email address). Contact information from the order form is used to confirm registration requests or fulfill a membership request. The customer’s contact information is also used to get in touch with the visitor when necessary and to inform customers of World Forestry Center events and activities. Users may opt out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.

Choice/Opt-Out

Our site provides users the opportunity to opt out of receiving communications from us. This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database so as to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.You can send email to mail@worldforestry.org.

Cookies

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

We use Google Analytics to track site performance. All information is anonymized and no personal data is saved with the site traffic informaiton

How long we retain your data

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Our contact information

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this web site, you can contact us.

World Forestry Center
503-228-1367
4033 SW Canyon Rd.
Portland, OR 97221

Additional information

How we protect your data

We use current industry standard web security.